This panel proceeds from the premise that digital writing andcommunications media have altered our understanding of what it meansto read and write, and therefore these media offer us new perspectiveson earlier "bookbound" writing. As such, in this panel we willtrouble the creation of a neat historical progression of writing thatmoves from one medium to the other by rereading modernist bookboundpoetry (from 1910-1945) through the lens of the digital and, as aconsequence, rereading digital poetry through the lens of modernism.For example: can we understand F.T. Marinetti's call for cinematic"words in freedom" in terms of flash-based digital poetry? AreTristan Tzara's chance-generated poems related to computer-generatedand/or mediated works? Can we offer a more sophisticated reading ofvisual poetry and/or poem-objects by poets such as GuillaumeApollinaire via digital poetry by, for example, John Cayley whichtakes place in a 3- or 4-D poetry environment?

Please send 250-word proposals with a paper-title and a shortbiographical blurb describing your work and your institutionalaffiliation to Lori Emerson, lori.emerson_at_gmail.com, by 1 April 2007.